Place of Hope, People of Promise

The IPHC vision to be a “Place of Hope. People of Promise” (Isaiah 54:2, 3) enables us to “see” the horizon to which the Holy Spirit is calling us. We can see “Places of Hope;” we can see “People of Promise.” We envision places, people, and opportunities in our present and future that need us to be what Christ has called and empowered us to be.

The articles in this collection are examples of the IPHC as a “Place of Hope. A People of Promise” around the world.

Discipleship Ministries Recommends Resources for Racial Reconciliation

In a previous article, the IPHC stated, “We believe that every person is worthy of equal dignity and respect by virtue of being created in the image of God. In light of current racial discord in the United States, the IPHC urges its members to seek insight and direction from the Bible and prayer. We...

Celebrating Dr. Vinson Synan

UPDATE: The memorial service at Oral Roberts University has been rescheduled for May 30, 2020, at 1:00pm. Regent University's service has been rescheduled for June 20, 2020 at 2:00pm. Dr. Vinson Synan passed away early Sunday morning, March 15, 2020, at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City. In declining health for several months, the outpouring...

Truth = Freedom

In late August 2018, I was honored and privileged to be a part of the “Grace Without Borders” Women's Ministries conference in Oklahoma City at the Heartland Retreat Center. I went as part of a ministry team representing Royal Home Ministries (a division of Falcon Children’s Home and Family Services) from Falcon, North Carolina. You...

Kindness as Worship

Written by: Femke Helland For two years, my husband, Matt, and I have been part of a team that visits the people who work in Amsterdam’s infamous Red Light District. We tell them about God’s love for them—about hope. We pray, we listen, and we offer practical help. Sometimes the young women want to...

They Prayed for Seven Years. Now, God is Sending the Harvest

By Mégan Alba Laurinburg, North Carolina, has the kind of statistics no town wants to share: it is the fourth most violent place in the state and has the highest unemployment and highest extreme child hunger rate in North Carolina. With no community center and few activities for children, gang activity has become rampant. But...

He Makes All Things New: A Story of Grief, Grace, and Healing

IPHC Clergy Development is excited to announce a new resource for pastors and leaders featuring the personal journey of Bishop Ray and Alison Boggs. After losing both of their spouses, Ray and Alison experienced immense grief followed by the recovering grace of God that has brought to them together. This video documentary produced by IPHC...

The Awakening: Traditional Internship to Begin at Emmanuel College

The Awakening will officially launch a full-time, traditional internship on Emmanuel College’s campus in Franklin Springs, GA, in August 2018. As the global youth and young adult department of World Missions Ministries, The Awakening’s heartbeat is to serve and help equip this generation to change the world. Primarily based out of the IPHC Global Ministry...

Gonzales Newsletter: June 2018

Dearly beloved partners and friends, Time passes by so quickly. We are scheduled to go on furlough this coming November, after three years of laboring in the field, and are so excited to see you all again. We have so many wonderful things to share with you about what the Lord has been doing in...

RFTW 2018 - Recap

Supernatural determination! God has given grace and provision to accomplish fifteen years of Mission M25 having presence in Washington DC on Memorial Day for the Rolling Thunder. This event promotes healing for the veterans, primarily for the Vietnam Veteran by giving them a welcome home they never received, and to call our nation into accountability...

Harvey's Visit

Having been born and raised in Houston, I grew up hearing about hurricanes. I’ve known what to do to prepare, and all too well about the damage the winds and water can cause to a house. On August 25, 2017, I remember thinking that it would start raining, the wind would pick up, and...

The Houston Miracle

The Houston Miracle By Bill Terry [vimeo 257960238 w=640 h=360] On August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Rockport, Texas with waves pounding the Corpus Christi shoreline. Harvey, a Category 4 hurricane with wind speeds of 130 mph, dumped 27 trillion gallons of water over Texas. As a result, the city of Houston...

Church Offers Rough Sleepers a Place to Stay Because of Fears They Could Die in Freezing Weather

By Abby Bolter Nine people took shelter on the first night! Fears that rough sleepers may die in sub-zero temperatures have prompted a church to open its doors at night, and nine people have already taken shelter. With the wind chill factor set to make temperatures feel as low as -12°C overnight this week, the Bridgend...

A Knight's Testimony

In February 2017, Gary Burd was invited to the South Carolina Conference to present Knight’s Training to a group of men from several churches in the area. Pointman, Angel Alba, worked with the churches and conference to coordinate the gathering which started on a Friday night with a “Battle Cry” and was followed on Saturday...

The Day that Everything Changed

Preachers, myself included, have no problem boldly declaring the promise from the Lord that nothing is final until He calls it final. After completing The Diaper Run, a notably difficult and taxing motorcycle ride with Mission: M25 Director Gary Burd, I was ready to come home and rest. Forty-seven hours of riding on a motorcycle...

IPHC Rides For LIFE!

IPHC’s commitment to stand for life continues in 2018! Disappointments, setbacks and hurdles will not deter us! As Pastor Marty Alvarado said, “we are here, we are making a stand and a statement!” First of all, we missed our Bishop Doug Beacham who initiated the IPHC’s commitment to the March for Life in...

Love Saves Lives

Love Saves Lives By Irvina Parker UPDATE: The IPHC March for Life rally will now be held at Kingsway Christian Center, 7403 Gum Spring Rd, Rosedale, MD 21237, at 7:30p.m., Thursday, January 18, 2018. In just a few short weeks, thousands of people will converge upon the nation’s capital for an event with a powerful message:...

The Fold: Bethel Life Worship Center

At Bethel Life, one thing is clear – loving God and loving people is our highest priority. There is a tangible atmosphere of love at Bethel, especially in our Loving Hands Ministry.This respite program provides a safe, fun evening out for families with children who have special physical, intellectual, behavioral or emotional needs. At Loving...

M25: Diapers To Warriors

What would bring men and women of the church together? A commitment to serve, to help each other, to help people hurting who have little hope. Marysol Martinez, director of Royal Home Ministries, along with her husband, SFC Chuck Martinez, invited Gary Burd, National Director and founder of the 50CC Diaper Run, along with fellow...

Harvest Train 2017

November 21, 2017 will be a special day in Falcon, North Carolina! The Harvest Train is an autumn tradition to celebrate the ministry of Falcon Children’s Home and Family Services. Attendees line up their cars filled with nonperishable food items, clothing, diapers, cleaning supplies, and other home and school necessities. The Harvest Train leads the caravan and passes...

The Fold: Upward Church

Harvest Time! Every Sunday for the last eight years, or 416 Sundays, someone has made a decision to follow Christ at Upward Church. On June 30th of this year twenty-eight people accepted the Lord, on September 24th, 1,290 people were in attendance with twenty-seven salvations, and on October 1st, twenty-nine people chose to follow Jesus....

Hurricane Maria and California Wildfires

DRUSA ANNOUNCES DISASTER DECLARATION: NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FIRES Presiding Bishop Doug Beacham has approved the recommendation of the Disaster Relief USA (DRUSA) Committee to declare Northern California for IPHC Disaster Relief Response. Northern California has been battling a series of major fires. According to The Washington Post, 21 different fires have burned over 191,000 acres, with many...

Hurricane Harvey Update- On the Ground in Houston

DRUSA's Mobile Feeding Kitchen has been in full swing since Sunday morning, September 3rd. Located just outside of Houston, at Oasis of Hope PHC in Webster, Texas, the Kitchen has served 4,600 meals in just the first two days. For those of you who may not have any reference, when the Kitchen is deployed to...

Not Lukewarm [Video]

The “Cradle of Christianity”, Turkey is home to the seven churches of Asia Minor and is considered the second biblical country after Israel. However, 99% of the population now claims to be Muslim. Even in difficult circumstances, Pastor Ismail has hope for his nation and believes that God is the God of restoration! “We definitely...

Refreshed [Video]

Within the shadows of New York City, Oasis Christian Center is bringing light to people from various ethnic, religious and economic backgrounds. Pastor Fred McCarthy shares, “…I remember us sitting at our kitchen table and these words just kept coming to us that this was to be a place of refreshing for people. A place...

Poverty Is Not A Disease [Video]

When God led Northview Harvest Ministries to build debt-free, they never knew their community was going to lose 26 businesses. However, God had a plan. “In November 1998, we moved into this facility debt free. And what it did, it freed up that money that we would've had to put into a mortgage payment, that...

Opportunity to Succeed [Video]

The city of Jonesboro, Louisiana, has experienced loss, disappointment, and hardship. Their children feel they do not have any hope for the future. When Rivers of Joy Ministries saw this need, they knew they had to get involved, “to help our young children not only to mature but at least give them an opportunity to...

They Will Be Healed [Video]

When Pastor Khader began ministering in Bethlehem, the people were discouraged, hurt and broken. However, he “felt the voice of the Lord to go and lead those people. Lead those people to healing and just to praise me and to worship me, and they will be healed.” As the Holy Spirit started to move, people...

A Football Stadium - yes!

TEAM '17 Pastor Rick Haug, Senior Pastor of Living Water Pentecostal Holiness Church (LWPHC) caught fire to reach his community of Maiden, NC and designed an outreach called To Evangelize All Maiden in 2017 (TEAM '17). He brought in the Matt Bartlett Band to fire everyone up, had free hamburgers and hot dogs, inflatables and...

Celebrating Christmas in Pakistan

by Russell Board Thousands of Pakistani Christians gathered in Karachi on December 21st, preparing gifts and costumes, and decorating floats using wagons, trucks, and camels. On the following day, a grand procession passed through the major streets of the capital city, a public celebration of Christmas in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan! Rev. Asher Mansha...

THE REBIRTH OF A CHURCH

Murrells Inlet Church Celebrates Re-Launch For decades, the Murrells Inlet Pentecostal Holiness Church has been a small yet faithful congregation. Many would have written the church off as “dying” or “dead,” but God had other plans. On October 16, the church celebrated its rebirth as Refuge Murrells Inlet, a daughter church of Refuge in Conway,...

Sharing Christ’s Love in Amsterdam’s Red Light District

New Ministry Focus: Prostituted Women in Amsterdam's Red Light District. In June of this year, we handed our church over to our associate pastors so that we could start a new church. We prayed for direction but were unsure what it would look like until we met Frits Rouvoet, the leader of Bright Fame. This Christian...

Crow Nation Beachhead

Mission:M25 leads a team, including Pastor Paul McElroy (Helena, MT) and Pastor Rick Haug (Maiden, NC) and seasoned M25 members from Christian Heritage Church in Amarillo, TX and Ft Dodge IA, to storm the 'beach' of the Crow Reservation at Crow Fair 2016 in Crow Agency, MT the week of August 17-21, 2016. The vision...